I Love February. Black History Month is in full effect. Over the next 28 days I'm gonna post some of my Black history favorites. Hope you enjoy. Today in Black history, we remember the nursery rhyme Miss Mary Mack. Peep game, slave children were taught corn ditties (the original name for Negro spirituals) to take their young minds off harsh plantation life. They would work & clap their hands in rhythm while singing. Miss Mary Mack happened to be on of those ditties. As other corn ditties, Miss Mary Mack was symbolic in that the Merrimack was an ironclad Union ship coming to fight the confederate army. It built with rivets (silver buttons) & ships have always been referred to as females. There is also symbolism behind asking her mother (the Confederate States of America) for fifty cents (a metaphor for change) to see the elephants (symbol of the Republican party who "freed the slaves") jump the fence (Mason-Dixon line). Slaves were smarter than the masters ever knew.

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